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LOWEA* berberifdlia. 

 Berherry-leaved Lowea. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosacea. 



LOWEA.— Folia simplicia exstipulata. Aculei saepiiis compositi. 

 Ccetera Rosge. 



Lowea berberifolia. 



Rosa simplicifolia. Salisb. hort. allert. 359. Parad. Lond. 101. Olivier 



voyage 5. 49. abl. t. 43. 

 R. berberifolia. Pallas in 7iov. act. Petr. 10. 379. t. 10. /. 5. Willd. 



sp. pi. 2. 1063. Ait. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 258. Smith in Rees in I. 



Redoute ros. 1. 27. t. 2. Lindley Rosarum monogr. p. 1. ed. gall. p. 23. 



Decand. prodr. 2. 602. Sprang, syst. 2. 546. Wallroth monogr. p. 25. 



This rare plant is a native exclusively of a few districts in the 

 north of Persia, and of the desert of Songari in Chinese Tartary. 

 From the latter place we possess specimens collected by Shankin, 

 an officer employed by the Russian government in surveying the 

 province ; and of the former, the plate that accompanies this article 

 is a representation. It was taken from a plant that flowered in 

 August 1828, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it 

 had been raised from seed sent home by Sir Henry Willock. 



The Persian plant differs in some respects from the Songarese 

 one, especially in being more glaucous ; and the plants raised from 

 the Persian seeds of Mr. Willock varied among each other in several 

 slight particulars, — none of which, however, were of any interest in 

 a Botanical point of view. 



The two most important topics connected with it relate, firstly, 

 to its genus, and, secondly, to its cultivation. In the latter respect 

 no more appears to be known now than was known upon its first 



* Named in compliment to the Rev. Mr. Lowe, travelling Bachelor of 

 the University of Cambridge ; a gentleman now resident in Madeira, from 

 whose Botanical investigations of that island we expect important results. 



